Bloomberg Says More Immigrants Are Needed

He must be trying to get that elusive hispanic/chinese/carribean vote in the future when he "runs" for a 4th term.

All the rich a-holes on Park need cheap nannies, housekeepers and dog walkers and all around cheap cash only labor, and who to better serve them than illegals? And that's what f-got Bloomberg is talking about.

You're right but that's only the beginning. Remember Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch (NYPost) and CEOs of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are fighting for this and they're not doing it for nannies or delivery guys. They're fighting for this so they can fill their factories with minimum wage workers.

And Bloomberg loves it.

Things like food delivery were traditionally done by teenagers or retired people. Enforcing immigration laws= after school jobs to keep kids out of trouble

You wouldn't have to pay young and/or retired people or new legal immigrants much more than illegals; in some cases as in standing on corners holding signs, giving out fliers, etc. a business owner might even pay a borderline homeless person less, it's better than begging.

For every legal worker you have to keep an administration. For day workers you don't. For every legal worker you have to pay all kinds of social fees. For day workers you don't. No more Arizona tomatoes nor upstate apples for 2 dollars a pound. No more 10 dollar delivery Mexican food. That will hurt the NYC middle class.

If someone can proof he worked in NY (illegally) for ten years, why not legalize him? Apparently he can do the job better then your drugged out homeless and takes care of himself without relying on what so ever social service.

"If someone can proof he worked in NY (illegally) for ten years"

take his job and don't give it back until unemployment is back to 5%

and send hinm to the back of the line for LEGAL IMMIGRATION.

"Apparently he can do the job better then your drugged out homeless and takes care of himself without relying on what so ever social service."

Thousands of NYC students and artists have lost their restaurant and painting jobs because illegals are working for half the wage and the boss' are paying less WC and unemployment insurance which is based on wage level (if they them at all).

And those illegals ARE sucking dry our social services. Go to a hospital / clinic and see who is getting free care PAID FOR BY TAXPAYERS.

If his employer depends on underpaying him why would he not be forced to use social services like Medicaid? In teh company I work for many American citizens with children purposely work less hours so they can qualify for Medicaid. They simply can't afford the company medical plan with their current salary. In short, when people are underpaid, the taxpayers will always be forced to make up the difference, just not the tax-sheltered Bloomturd class.

Re: prices for goods and serices

The part of the equation that's being missed is CEO and upper management compensation. What hurts the middle class is that a CEO that used to make 4 or 6 times what the average workers made is now making 50 or 100 times. Cut that bullshit out and there's your savings. Down with the Bloomturds

You wouldn't devastate anything by deporting illegals or not letting more in; you'd have more Americans, including legal immigrants making a decent living and a tiny bit less wealth for the Bloomturds.

Let me know if you still feel that way when your Chinese food now has a $10 delivery charge. Or when an entree at your favorite restaurant now cost $20 instead of $15.

I'm not saying that realistic pricing and the employment of Americans is bad...far from it. But there will be a lot of consequences that I don't think people fully consider.

Bloomberg just wants his golf courses watered for cheap.

holy crap we agree on something

Yup.

And when more Americans are working for a decent wage.

You would devastate the national economy if by some magic, and that's the only way you would do it, you would find everybody who was here illegally and deport them.

Bloomie is the best! I want to have his baby

Yes to more people who will bow and scrape in the presence of the Almighty Bloomberg!

bloomberg is such a creep. he knows the real reason why he wants more immigrants and gives a completely bullshit reason otherwise. he is so horrible. he says what he pleases because he knows there are enough fools who will believe him. he capitlaizes on the apathy of the masses.

you have to be a fool to believe bloomberg. all he wants is a cheaper and less-educated workforce.

MORE???? gtfoh

Bloomberg is such a despicable man.

Does anyone think Bloomberg really feels for immigrants and wants to help them? Are fucking kidding me? This is the same man that called the poorest NYers "stupid" for trying to pass a bill requiring mega-millionaire developers to pay employees $10/hr on projects where they receive tax payer subsidies (aka Corporate Welfare) and now all of the suddenly he's concerned with immigrants and wants to help them? Bullshit!

IMMIGRANTS = CHEAP LABOR

To Bloomberg these immigrants represent cheap labor that's it. The more people willing to work for the lowest possible pay the more people like him can prosper. That's all Bloomberg and his buddies care about, money, their money.

"Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.

The group includes several other big-city mayors and calls itself the Partnership for a New American Economy. It seeks to reframe immigration reform as the solution to repairing and stimulating the economy." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/rupert-murdoch-mayor-bloo_n_623805.html

Stimulating the economy? What a joke? As if the problem wasn't that the employment rate is in the double digits already. They know better than anyone that the problem isn't that there aren't enough workers, the problem is that there aren't enough jobs for the workers we already have. How's adding 12 million more job seekers going to help the situation? They know very well that it will push unemployment even higher and lower salaries as more and more people compete for the few jobs available. That's all they want cheap labor.

Now Bloomberg wants to make it look like he's so righteous and wants to help these poor souls, he's such a piece of shit.

Bloomberg is the worst mayor ever!

"And will continue to be true even more so in the future as we continue to live in a more global technological world."

Yes, every day the world becomes more global. Thank you Bloomberg for that nugget of knowledge.

So, unemployment is still hovering around 9.5 for National, 8.2 for NY State, 8.8 for NYC - as an aside, LA is 11.2 - but by this man's estimate, getting more people into the country is the right choice.

And - Biometric Social Security Cards? I know it's like a swipe card with a fingerprint scan, but it's still a hair's breath away from a microchip under the skin...

Technology has moved way beyond ever needing to put a microchip under ones skin.

Bloomberg continues to prove his disassociation with anyone that could be considered a common person. "You give permanent status, after [they] pay fines, learn English, whatever" Are they going to be doing this in NYC public schools? The law holds many pitfalls and opportunities to abuse people's civil liberties and I think it's malformed, but perhaps if illegal immigrants would swear an oath to cut back on their sodium intake and never smoke, he'd be willing to just let them in without due process.

Bloomie can talk all he wants, but he has no power to decide who can come and who can stay.

But he doesn't enforce the law and all these businesses including the horse carriage industry hires illegals while the cost if bored by us. Bloomberg doesn't care about diversity but wants the cheap labor pool for his corporate scum friends. and then bloomberg and his corporate scum put all their money in offshore accounts

Sound like the right thing for Bloomie to say. But, the crowded schools, crowded roads and strained mass transit states something different.

Says he who has made his own city unaffordable for people who already live here, let alone immigrants who come here with nothing to start.

Bloomberg wants a larger and more diverse international grouping of people of color to racially profile and stop and frisk, so that African Americans won;t feel singled out.

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